A one-car accident closed part of Western Avenue near Stuyvesant Plaza Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014, in Guilderland, N.Y. The over-turned car came to a rest in front of Christ Lutheran Chruch.

A one-car accident closed part of Western Avenue near Stuyvesant Plaza Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014, in Guilderland, N.Y. The over-turned car came to a rest in front of Christ Lutheran Chruch.

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A one-car accident closed part of Western Avenue near Stuyvesant Plaza Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014, in Guilderland, N.Y. The over-turned car came to a rest in front of Christ Lutheran Chruch.

A one-car accident closed part of Western Avenue near Stuyvesant Plaza Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014, in Guilderland, N.Y. The over-turned car came to a rest in front of Christ Lutheran Chruch.

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Crews work on a telephone pole that was broken in a one-car accident that closed part of Western Avenue near Stuyvesant Plaza Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014, in Guilderland, N.Y.

Crews work on a telephone pole that was broken in a one-car accident that closed part of Western Avenue near Stuyvesant Plaza Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014, in Guilderland, N.Y.

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One-car crash closes Western Ave.

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GUILDERLAND — A one-car accident shut down Western Avenue near Stuyvesant Plaza early Sunday evening and sent one woman to the hospital.

Guilderland Police said Eleanor McClellan-Mead of Vestal was sent to Albany Medical Center with serious injuries after her 2007 Honda sedan crashed into a telephone pole near the plaza at around 3 p.m. McClellan-Mead need to be extricated from the overturned sedan.

All four lanes of the road were closed between Schoolhouse Road, just east of the end of the Northway, and Fuller Road Sunday evening.

The road was open again by 9:30 p.m.

Gannon Fisher, who works at the Five Guys restaurant just up the hill from where the overturned gold sedan came to a rest, said he did not see or hear the crash from inside the restaurant but came out to see a telephone pole leaning toward the ground and wires strewn across the road.

Fisher said a passing motorcyclist stopped in the middle of the road to warn traffic, which he said was relatively light at the time of the crash, about the live wires on the ground.

At 5 p.m. crews were picking up the pieces of the telephone pole, which appeared to be splintered in half. Parts of the area lost power, though a National Grid spokeswoman said electricity was restored around 5 p.m. Police said crews had repaired the telephone pole and downed power lines by Sunday night.